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Alcohol, Isopropyl Alcohol is not edible, it should evaporate but not edible... cleaning very well with dish washing liquid is good, and depending upon the hardness of your water may or may not leave a residue. Typically we use strong base or strong acid or a combination of both types of...

But you said... ;p S'ok man, rock on, go make some beer!

I think ya did great, congrats!!! You brew medal winning beer!!

Well, hard to say, German Style Lite... um, is this a Lager, an Ale? What temp has it been sitting at? Personally I let all my primaries sit for 3 weeks, then I either bottle or now (yeah!) force carb them and wait another two to three weeks to even think about drinking them... sure I'll taste...

Well, is it a hot kettle? If not, first off make sure the valve is open and not closed and then you can try to blow into it...

Either it is a clog or the child proof seal on the kettle side is still in there ;p Tube or no, when you open that sucker if liquid is above it then it should come out, the max speed is dependent on the orifice opening, as pressure goes up the orifice is the limiting factor... either way you...

Looks awesome, you can trust your future brews will be fine at the end of the 21 days.. you don't need to take the top off and check the gravity cause it will be finished one way or the other after 21 days. Less chance of you infecting it as you lean over and google at it :-)

Yeah, now put that top back on and leave it another 2 weeks!

Exactly! I can't remember how many times I've 'stirred' 5 degrees out of the mash ;-)

Pretty sure ya can get a free 21 day trial version of Beersmith at beersmith.com Find out these variables if ya can, the weight (mass) of your mash tun, the volume of it, the wt of the grain... Beersmith will want to know all of this when you set it up, you have to set up your equipment and...

Please, the glass carboy is NOT something you should mess with, go with a plastic fermenter pail. Glass is way dangerous and very hard to carry, trust me I've carried many and wished I had stop using them way sooner. Well over 90 degrees is very hot, so a fridge may be your only way... that...

It won't hurt it, so if your want to have fun, I can understand that... go for it! After 10 or 15 batches you'll want to save yourself some trouble maybe, maybe not, you might just be a beer player wither and that works too :D Here's a 'moving the beer' tip. When you move the fermenter try...

Make your life easy man, just leave it in the primary for another week and bottle it. There is zero reason to 2ndary, no debate needed. If it were a Helles I might suggest 2ndary+geletin but in your case this is a red and it will be a bit cloudy but so what? Save yourself the trouble and just...

'preciate it!

Hey folks, I am about to use some whole hops for the first time... it is pressed into a brick so it is flaky (like myself) and smells amazing... anyhow I know the AA's so can I just use the same weight as I would with pellets? Should I add 10% more, less, what? I guess beersmith will know, but...

Rock on! :rockin:

I do it with a stick made of cpvc... I used 4 cup measuring cups and carefully measured out a gallon and poured that in my #1 Kettle, I then used a sharpe marker to put a line where the water level was and wrote a 1 next to it. Do that up to as many gallons as you need to mark up the stick...

So I plugged this into Beersmith and it calculates the final volume should be 4.4 gallons for 6#DME+.75#C40L+.25# of Cara to get you 1.060 so that should mean you have about 4.5 gallons in your carboy. Beersmith agrees with your recipe that if the final volume were 5.5 the OG should be 1.049 ...

I was thinking, considering it is an extract batch he may have evaporated more than he thought and concentrated it in so doing and since he was going to add water anyway... but geeze the recipe had a 6.91 gallon on it and I didn't even ask him if he was using a large kettle or if he was doing a...

Did you take the preboil gravity? Did it agree with your preboil estimate? I usually take that preboil estimate and let it be a guideline for how much sugar was actually in the batch. So after you steep your grains, bring your batch to a boil, add your DME and other fermentables and then...